{"id":1494,"date":"2011-02-19T23:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2011-02-19T23:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T03:48:22","slug":"the-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"The Way Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion is simply the way home to the Father.  Because of our unchildlikeness, the true way is difficult enough &#8212; uphill, steep, but there is fresh life with every surmounted height, a purer air gained, more life for more climbing.  But the path that is not the true one is not therefore an easy one.  Uphill work is hard walking, but through a bog is worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; George MacDonald, <em>Knowing the Heart of God<\/em>, p. 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion is simply the way home to the Father. Because of our unchildlikeness, the true way is difficult enough &#8212; uphill, steep, but there is fresh life with every surmounted height, a purer air gained, more life for more climbing. But the path that is not the true one is not therefore an easy one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-growth","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}